Understanding Transport Layer Functions and Challenges

1. CSE 524: Lecture 10 Transport layer (Part 1)

2. Administrative • Homework #3 due • E-mail confirmation of research paper topic due by Monday (10/29) • Midterm Monday (10/29)

3. Chapter 3: Transport Layer provide logical communication between app’ processes running on different hosts transport protocols run in end systems transport vs network layer services: network layer: data transfer between end systems transport layer: data transfer between processes relies on, enhances, network layer services application transport network data link physical application transport network data link physical network data link physical network data link physical network data link physical network data link physical network data link physical logical end-end transport

4. Transport layer outline • Transport layer functions • Specific Internet transport layers

5. Transport Layer Functions • Demux to upper layer • Quality of service • Security • Delivery semantics • Flow control • Congestion control • Reliable data transfer

6. TL: Demux to upper layer (application) Recall: segment - unit of data exchanged between transport layer entities aka TPDU: transport protocol data unit M M M M application transport network application transport network application transport network H n Demultiplexing: delivering received segments to correct app layer processes receiver P3 P4 application-layer data segment header P1 P2 segment H t M segment

7. TL: Quality of service • Provide predictability and guarantees in transport layer • Operating system issues • Protocol handler scheduling • Buffer resource allocation • Process/application scheduling • Support for signaling (setup, management, teardown) • L4 (transport) switches, L5 (application) switches, and NAT devices • Issues in supporting QoS at the end systems and end clusters

8. TL: Security • Provide at the transport level • Secrecy • No eavesdropping • Integrity • No man-in-the-middle attacks • Authenticity • Ensure identity of source • What is the difference between transport layer security and network layer security? • Does the end-to-end principle apply?

9. TL: Delivery semantics • Reliable vs. unreliable • Unicast vs. multicast • Ordered vs. unordered • Any others?

10. TL: Flow control • Do not allow sender to overrun receiver’s buffer resources • Similar to data-link layer flow control, but done on an end-to-end basis

11. TL: Congestion control Congestion: informally: “too many sources sending too much data too fast for network to handle” sources compete for resources inside network different from flow control! manifestations: lost packets (buffer overflow at routers) long delays (queueing in router buffers)

12. TL: Congestion 10 Mbps 1.5 Mbps 100 Mbps • Why is it a problem? • Sources are unaware of current state of resource • Sources are unaware of each other • In many situations will result in < 1.5 Mbps of “goodput” (congestion collapse)

13. TL: Congestion Collapse • Increase in network load results in decrease of useful work done • Spurious retransmissions of packets still in flight • Classical congestion collapse • Solution: better timers and congestion control • Undelivered packets • Packets consume resources and are dropped elsewhere in network • Solution: congestion control for ALL traffic • Fragments • Mismatch of transmission and retransmission units • Solutions: • Make network drop all fragments of a packet (early packet discard in ATM) • Do path MTU discovery • Control traffic • Large percentage of traffic is for control • Headers, routing messages, DNS, etc. • Stale or unwanted packets • Packets that are delayed on long queues • “Push” data that is never used

14. TL: Causes/costs of congestion: scenario 1 two senders, two receivers one router, infinite buffers no retransmission large delays when congested maximum achievable throughput

15. TL: Causes/costs of congestion: scenario 2 one router, finite buffers sender retransmission of lost packet network with bottleneck link capacity C

16. TL: Causes/costs of congestion: scenario 2 “perfect” retransmission only when loss: “imperfect” retransmission Retransmission of delayed (not lost) packets Duplicate packets travel over links and arrive at receiver Goodput decreases More work for given “goodput” = “costs” of congestion l l l l l > > l l l in2 in1 in1 in2 in1 out2 out1 out1 = = C > = = = C

17. TL: Causes/costs of congestion: scenario 3 four senders multihop paths timeout/retransmit worst-case goodput = 0 l l in in Q:what happens as and increase ?

18. TL: Causes/costs of congestion: scenario 3 Another “cost” of congestion: • when packet dropped, any “upstream transmission capacity used for that packet was wasted! • congestion collapse • known as “the cliff”

19. TL: Preventing Congestion Collapse • End-host vs. network controlled • Trust hosts to do the right thing • Hosts adjust rate based on detected congestion (TCP) • Don’t trust hosts and enforce within network • Network adjusts rates at congestion points • Scheduling • Queue management • Hard to prevent global collapse conditions locally • Implicit vs. explicit rate control • Infer congestion from packet loss or delay • Increase rate in absence of loss, decrease on loss (TCP Tahoe/Reno) • Increase rate based on delay behavior (TCP Vegas, Packet pair) • Explicit signaling from network • Congestion notification (DECbit, ECN) • Rate signaling (ATM ABR)

20. TL: Goals for congestion control mechanisms • Use network resources efficiently • 100% link utilization, 0% packet loss, Low delay • Maximize network power: (throughputa/delay) • Efficiency/goodput: Xknee = Sxi(t) • Preserve fair network resource allocation • Fairness: (Sxi)2/n(Sxi2) • Max-min fair sharing • Small flows get all of the bandwidth they require • Large flows evenly share leftover • Example • 100Mbs link • S1 and S2 are 1Mbs streams, S3 and S4 are infinite greedy streams • S1 and S2 each get 1Mbs, S3 and S4 each get 49Mbs • Convergence and stability • Distributed operation • Simple router and end-host behavior

21. TL: Congestion Control vs. Avoidance Throughput Delay Load Load • Avoidance keeps the system performing at the knee/cliff • Control kicks in once the system has reached a congested state

22. TL: Basic Control Model • Of all ways to do congestion, the Internet chooses…. • Mainly end-host, window-based congestion control • Only place to really prevent collapse is at end-host • Reduce sender window when congestion is perceived • Increase sender window otherwise (probe for bandwidth) • Congestion signaling and detection • Mark/drop packets when queues fill, overflow • Will cover this separately in later lecture • Given this, how does one design a windowing algorithm which best meets the goals of congestion control?

23. TL: Linear Control • Many different possibilities for reaction to congestion and probing • Examine simple linear controls • Window(t + 1) = a + b Window(t) • Different ai/bi for increase and ad/bd for decrease • Supports various reaction to signals • Increase/decrease additively • Increase/decrease multiplicatively • Which of the four combinations is optimal?

24. TL: Phase plots • Simple way to visualize behavior of competing connections over time Fairness Line User 2’s Allocation x2 Efficiency Line User 1’s Allocation x1

25. TL: Phase plots • What are desirable properties? • What if flows are not equal? Fairness Line Overload User 2’s Allocation x2 Optimal point Underutilization Efficiency Line User 1’s Allocation x1

26. TL: Additive Increase/Decrease • Both X1 and X2 increase/decrease by the same amount over time • Additive increase improves fairness and additive decrease reduces fairness Fairness Line T1 User 2’s Allocation x2 T0 Efficiency Line User 1’s Allocation x1

27. TL: Muliplicative Increase/Decrease • Both X1 and X2 increase by the same factor over time • Extension from origin – constant fairness Fairness Line T1 User 2’s Allocation x2 T0 Efficiency Line User 1’s Allocation x1

28. TL: Convergence to Efficiency & Fairness • From any point, want to converge quickly to intersection of fairness and efficiency lines Fairness Line xH User 2’s Allocation x2 Efficiency Line User 1’s Allocation x1

29. TL: What is the Right Choice? • Constraints limit us to AIMD • Can have multiplicative term in increase • AIMD moves towards optimal point Fairness Line x1 x0 User 2’s Allocation x2 x2 Efficiency Line User 1’s Allocation x1

30. TL: Reliable data transfer • Error detection, correction • Retransmission • Duplicate detection • Connection integrity

31. TL: Principles of Reliable data transfer important in app., transport, link layers characteristics of unreliable channel will determine complexity of reliable data transfer protocol (rdt)

32. TL: Reliable data transfer: getting started rdt_send():called from above, (e.g., by app.). Passed data to deliver to receiver upper layer deliver_data():called by rdt to deliver data to upper udt_send():called by rdt, to transfer packet over unreliable channel to receiver rdt_rcv():called when packet arrives on rcv-side of channel send side receive side

33. TL: Reliable data transfer: getting started We’ll: incrementally develop sender, receiver sides of reliable data transfer protocol (rdt) consider only unidirectional data transfer but control info will flow on both directions! use finite state machines (FSM) to specify sender, receiver event state 1 state 2 actions event causing state transition actions taken on state transition state: when in this “state” next state uniquely determined by next event

34. TL: Rdt1.0: reliable transfer over a reliable channel underlying channel perfectly reliable no bit erros no loss of packets separate FSMs for sender, receiver: sender sends data into underlying channel receiver read data from underlying channel

35. TL: Rdt2.0: channel with bit errors underlying channel may flip bits in packet the question: how to recover from errors: acknowledgements (ACKs): receiver explicitly tells sender that pkt received OK negative acknowledgements (NAKs): receiver explicitly tells sender that pkt had errors sender retransmits pkt on receipt of NAK new mechanisms in rdt2.0 (beyond rdt1.0): error detection receiver feedback: control msgs (ACK,NAK) rcvr->sender

36. TL: rdt2.0: FSM specification sender FSM receiver FSM

37. TL: rdt2.0: in action (no errors) sender FSM receiver FSM

38. TL: rdt2.0: in action (error scenario) sender FSM receiver FSM

39. TL: rdt2.0 has a fatal flaw! What happens if ACK/NAK corrupted? sender doesn’t know what happened at receiver! can’t just retransmit: possible duplicate What to do? sender ACKs/NAKs receiver’s ACK/NAK? What if sender ACK/NAK lost? retransmit, but this might cause retransmission of correctly received pkt! Handling duplicates: sender adds sequence number to each pkt sender retransmits current pkt if ACK/NAK garbled receiver discards (doesn’t deliver up) duplicate pkt stop and wait Sender sends one packet, then waits for receiver response

40. TL: rdt2.1: sender, handles garbled ACK/NAKs

41. TL: rdt2.1: receiver, handles garbled ACK/NAKs

42. TL: rdt2.1: discussion Sender: seq # added to pkt two seq. #’s (0,1) will suffice. Why? must check if received ACK/NAK corrupted twice as many states state must “remember” whether “current” pkt has 0 or 1 seq. # Receiver: must check if received packet is duplicate state indicates whether 0 or 1 is expected pkt seq # note: receiver can not know if its last ACK/NAK received OK at sender

43. TL: rdt2.2: a NAK-free protocol same functionality as rdt2.1, using NAKs only instead of NAK, receiver sends ACK for last pkt received OK receiver must explicitly include seq # of pkt being ACKed duplicate ACK at sender results in same action as NAK: retransmit current pkt sender FSM !

44. TL: rdt3.0: channels with errors and loss New assumption: underlying channel can also lose packets (data or ACKs) checksum, seq. #, ACKs, retransmissions will be of help, but not enough Q: how to deal with loss? sender waits until certain data or ACK lost, then retransmits yuck: drawbacks? Approach: sender waits “reasonable” amount of time for ACK retransmits if no ACK received in this time if pkt (or ACK) just delayed (not lost): retransmission will be duplicate, but use of seq. #’s already handles this receiver must specify seq # of pkt being ACKed requires countdown timer

45. TL: rdt3.0 sender

46. TL: rdt3.0 in action

47. TL: rdt3.0 in action

48. TL: Performance of rdt3.0 rdt3.0 works, but performance stinks example: 1 Gbps link, 15 ms e-e prop. delay, 1KB packet: fraction of time sender busy sending = = 0.00015 Utilization = U = 8kb/pkt T = 8 microsec = 8 microsec transmit 10**9 b/sec 30.016 msec • 1KB pkt every 30 msec -> 33kB/sec thruput over 1 Gbps link • network protocol limits use of physical resources!

49. TL: Pipelined protocols Pipelining: sender allows multiple, “in-flight”, yet-to-be-acknowledged pkts range of sequence numbers must be increased buffering at sender and/or receiver Two generic forms of pipelined protocols: go-Back-N, selective repeat

50. TL: Go-Back-N Sender: k-bit seq # in pkt header “window” of up to N, consecutive unack’ed pkts allowed • ACK(n): ACKs all pkts up to, including seq # n - “cumulative ACK” • may deceive duplicate ACKs (see receiver) • timer for each in-flight pkt • timeout(n): retransmit pkt n and all higher seq # pkts in window